AVOID FADS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 9 October 1926, Page 7

AVOID FADS

TALKS ON HEALjII (By Telegraph.-Special to The Mail.) CHRISTCHURCH, Oct. 8. The most important tiling in keeping healthy as far as diet is concerned is to avoid all fads, was the advice of Dr. Malcolm Gray in a lunch hour talk to the men at the Addington railway workshops. He exemplified as a tiling to be avoided the "green leaf" diet so much spoken of. Dr. J. C. M'lntyre, too, in a talk to the employees of Booth, M'Donald and Co., said that if they were to believe M. Devcreau.x they "would think that nil meats were poison. In his opinion the "green leaf advocates" went too far. There was something in the contention that people ate too much meat and not enough vegetables and fruit, but the views of the "green-leafers" were far too dogmatic. Meat once; a day was sufficient, and every person should drink a pint of milk daily, and children should drink a quart. In further remarks about diet, Dr. M'lntyre. said that most people liked fruit, but found it too expensive. He knew of jio reason why fruit should no: be clnaper. Too many sweets were eaten, and (hough not exactly harmful sucets 1 ended lo spoil the appetite, with tin; result that people did not eat enough nourishing food. The pari that doctors .should play in Ihe community was to prevent illness rather than cure it. People should consult doctors when they were well and thus put into effect the old saying that prevention is belter than cure. Dr. Gray stressed the importance of keeping fit and thus resisting I lie germs which cause disease, hut which it had been found did not at tad; the healthy body. To lead healthy lives they must have ilue regard to the commonest acts of eating, sleeping, and drinking. Eating was a, most important subject, abonl half the. ills of humanity being due In faults of diet and disease caused by decayed teeth. Drinking was important, and it must be borne in mind that nobody in the world drank enough water.